Chapter 50: Emperor Qin's Life

Lü Buwei was implicated in the rebellion of Chang Yu, was deposed from the position of Xiangbang, and was demoted to Henan. After Lü Buwei arrived in Henan, there were still thousands of guests to greet him, which made Yingzheng very disgusted.

Is Lü Buwei the biological father of King Yingzheng of Qin?

First of all, we must know the time and purpose of Lü Buwei when he gave Zhao Ji to Ying Yiren.

Lü Buwei's purpose is very simple, he wants to gain the trust of Ying Yiren by sending Zhao Ji, and at the same time, he will make himself soar through Ying Yiren to inherit the throne of Qin State. This is not without precedent before, Qin has always been an enlightened country, many people from the six eastern countries have been ministers of state in Qin, Qin's guest secretary system is an important means for them to introduce talents, Lü Buwei just wants to get on this boat through Yingyiren.

So as for the question of whether Zhao Ji was pregnant when she was sent over, it depends on the actual situation and Lu Buwei's motives.

First of all, look at the motive, if Lü Buwei wants to usurp the royal power of Qin in this way, then he should govern Qin with Qin Shi Huang with one heart. But in fact, he and Qin Shi Huang turned against each other because of the power struggle, and was finally executed. Therefore, Lü Buwei's motive is just to monopolize power by himself, and he has no time to take care of the problems of the next generation, not to mention that it will take a lot of risks to do so, and once Yingyiren finds out, he will lose his trust in Lü Buwei.

Looking at the actual situation at that time, it was planned for Lu Buwei to curry favor with Ying Yiren, and the opportunity was urgent, he couldn't wait until Zhao Ji was pregnant to send it over, and if he could find out that he was pregnant, he should have a pregnancy reaction, Ying Yiren couldn't be so stupid that he couldn't even see this. Another point, if Qin Shihuang is Lü Buwei's child, his appearance must be somewhat similar to Lü Buwei, of course, he may also look like Zhao Ji, but he must have nothing to do with Ying Yiren, doesn't Ying Yiren have doubts?

There is also an important fact that is certain: Qin Shi Huang was definitely not the son of Lü Buwei!

It was after the Zhao State suffered the "defeat of Changping" that the Qin army took advantage of the situation to march and besiege the national capital Handan, at that time Lü Buwei and Ying Yiren's family were in Handan, and the situation was very unfavorable to Ying Yiren. At a critical time, Lü Buwei thought of absconding from Handan with Ying Yiren and returned to Qin before defecting to the Qin army. And Zhao Ji's mother and son were abandoned in Handan, if it weren't for their fate, it is estimated that they would have been killed by King Zhao to vent their anger. It was not until Ying Yiren was made the crown prince of Qin that Zhao Ji's mother and son were brought back from Zhao (at this time the two countries ceased fire). If Qin Shi Huang was really Lü Buwei's son, then as part of Lü Buwei's plan, it was impossible for him to abandon Qin Shi Huang in the dangerous Zhao State.

In 235 BC, Lü Buwei was relegated to Shu again. After Lü Buwei received the will, he was full of contradictions, understanding that King Yingzheng of Qin was violent and arrogant by nature, and it was difficult for him to survive anymore.

And Qin Wang Yingzheng looked at Lu Buwei, who was about to cut himself, and asked something that everyone in the world was curious about.

"Are you the widow's biological father?" King Yingzheng of Qin looked at Qin Xiang Lu Buwei with red eyes.

"How is that possible? When the king was born, the first king and I had a blood test on the spot, which confirmed that the king was indeed the blood of the Ying family, and there was no need to fight between the monarch and the minister. Lü Buwei explained with a wry smile.

"In that case, why have you never publicly defended yourself?" King Yingzheng of Qin asked puzzled.

"The king once dripped blood on the spot in front of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, hasn't it been confirmed? Is Lao Chen's defense still useful? Rumors stop at the wise, just like Fan Yuzhi and Cheng Jiao, they just want to find a suitable excuse in order to rebel. Lü Buwei then sighed.

"Is the death of two generations of kings your poison?" King Yingzheng of Qin immediately asked again, his eyes bursting with hatred.

"The king also looks up to the old ministers too much, and murdering two generations of Qin kings is a capital crime for the nine clans. Besides, the clan surnamed Ying has never been short of frail and sick people who died early, but some people want to deal with the old ministers, and there is no excuse for the crime they want to add? Lü Buwei was completely aggrieved.

"You are in power, have you ever thought of replacing it?" Qin Wang Yingzheng continued to ask.

"It doesn't matter if the old man has thought about it or not! The important thing is that the old man has no chance of succeeding at all. The xenophobic forces of the Qin State are too strong, whether it is Shang Ying, Gongsun Yan, Zhang Yi, Fan Ju, even if it is a relative surnamed Mi, there is no chance to defeat the local forces of the Qin State. That's the reality! Lu Buwei smiled bitterly, "Lao Chen is just a businessman, and he won't take such a big risk to seek something that he can't get at all." ”

"For the sake of your hard work for so many years, the widow will let your family go, you can go with peace of mind." King Yingzheng of Qin stood silently for a while, leaving a glass of poisonous wine and drifting away.

After Lü Buwei's death, King Yingzheng of Qin obeyed the words of the nobles of Qin and issued the "Book of Expulsion" to expel the diners of the six countries.

Li Si was a county official in his early years, and studied the art of the emperor under Xunzi. After completing his studies, he entered Qin as an official, and Prime Minister Lü Buwei thought that he was an official, and persuaded King Qin to destroy the princes and become an emperor, and he was appointed as a long history. The king of Qin accepted his plan, and sent strategists to lobby the six countries of Kwantung with gold and jade, and divided the monarchs and ministers of various countries, thinking that they were guests, and played a major role in Qin's cause of destroying the six countries.

Hearing that King Yingzheng of Qin issued the "Book of Expulsion of Guests", Li Si immediately wrote to King Qin, persuading King Qin not to expel guests, which is the famous "Book of Expulsion of Guests": "I heard that the ministers are talking about expelling guests, which is wrong. In the past, Qin Mugong sought sages, invited Yu from Rong in the west, invited Baili Xi from Chu in the east, ushered in Uncle Jian from the Song State, and appointed Pibao and Gongsun Zhi from the Jin State. Qin Mugong appointed these five people, annexed twenty countries, and dominated Xirong. Qin Xiaogong reused Shang martingale, implemented new laws, changed customs, made the country rich and strong, defeated Chu and Wei, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and the Qin State became strong. King Hui of Qin used Zhang Yi's strategy to break up the alliance of the six kingdoms to resist Qin and force all countries to obey Qin. King Qin Zhao obtained Fan Ju, weakened the power of the nobles, strengthened the royal power, encroached on the princes, and Qin became the emperor. These four generations of kings all contributed to the Qin State because of the appointment of Keqing. If these four kings also ordered the expulsion of guests, it would only make the country not rich, and the Qin state would not have a strong reputation. ”

King Yingzheng of Qin clearly distinguished between right and wrong, came to his senses, and decisively adopted Li Si's suggestion and immediately canceled the eviction order.

And Li Si was still reused and was made a court lieutenant.

"Li Si has finally stepped onto the big stage of history, Tingwei is just his starting point, one day he will be noticed by thousands of people!" Meng Yi watched history still turn as if it was normal.

However, Meng Yi discovered the trace of the Dragon Slayer King by accident, and there was an unexpected factor in the rebellion of Chang Yu: Rong Di Gong.

The Rong Di of the Qin State mainly refers to the Yiqu people. Yiqu existed for more than 800 years from the establishment of the tribal state in the Wuyi period of the Shang Dynasty to the time of King Zhao of Qin, of which 500 years were the establishment of a slave county state in Qingyang (772 BC to 272 BC).

Until 306 BC, King Qin Zhao was established as the monarch, and because he was still young, he was regent by his mother Empress Dowager Xuan. She changed her strategy of confronting the Yiqu Rong Kingdom head-on, and adopted a policy of softness, co-optation, and corruption to fall into the king's ambition. She wrote to the king of Yiqu to live in Ganquan Palace, let him live for a long time, and entertain him with a generous life. Later, the king of Yiqu secretly communicated with the Empress Dowager Xuan and had two sons, which made the king of Yiqu completely lose his vigilance against the Qin State. 34 years later (272 BC), Empress Dowager Xuan killed the king of Yiqu in Ganquan Palace, and then sent troops to attack Yiqu, Yiqu was destroyed, and the territory was incorporated into Qin. After the fall of the Yiqu Kingdom, it was gradually assimilated by the Qin people, but in order to appease the Rongdi people, the successive Qin kings still added some Rongdi leaders.

Meng Yi guessed that this time it should be the Dragon Slayer King who secretly persuaded the Rong Di leaders in the Qin State to rebel! It's a pity that the leaders of Rong Di died in the chaos of the war, and there is no way to find out.

"Dragon Slayer, you're finally on your way. I thought you had become a thousand-year-old king, and you wouldn't move even if you were killed. Meng Yi looked up to the sky and shouted happily.

At the foot of Lishan Mountain, Licheng Mengfu.

"The court has gradually calmed down, will our Meng family return to Xianyang?" General Meng Wu summoned the backbone of the Meng family and asked with collective wisdom.

"My father has now taken over as the head of the Meng family, everything should adhere to the golden mean, the Qin State is about to go east, our Meng family should obey the king's arrangement, not ask for anything." Meng Yi expressed his opinion.

"Wait and see? Will this miss the opportunity to revitalize the family? Meng Wu said with some displeasure.

"No, no, no, now that the king is in power, I am most afraid that someone will restrain him everywhere like Lu Buwei. Therefore, if the king wants to reuse the Meng family again, there is no need for us to ask for war, and the king will naturally have grace. Meng Yi explained.

"The second brother is now in control of the black-clothed guard, isn't it the king's reuse? Brother, I've been sitting in the cold seat for several years. Meng Wu was a little dissatisfied.

"Haha...... Don't worry, brother! Although I nominally control the Black Guard, the actual control has long been taken back by the King, and I am just a nominal Black Guard. Meng Yi simply made the matter public and explained in detail, "This is the mastery of the king, reusing talents everywhere on the surface, and guarding against everywhere secretly, no one can be as powerful as Lu Buwei." ”

"I see, I said that Fu Bo has also been promoted to the Lishan camp recently, and it seems that the king has been secretly planning for a long time. We just have to wait and see. General Meng Wu said with a wry smile, "Anyone who underestimates the Great King will fall on his way, and no one will be an exception." ”

"Since ancient times, we should be wise and protect ourselves." Meng Yi saw that his father Meng Wu had seen it thoroughly, so he took the opportunity to add another fire, otherwise the Meng family would be buried with him after the Qin Dynasty Mansion collapsed.

"For the sake of a courtier, how can you speculate so much about the king?" Meng Tian was very angry and left the table.

"Idiot, idiot...... I will definitely suffer here in the future. Seeing this, Meng Wu was helpless, "Yi'er, if anything happens in the future, you can take care of Tian'er more." ”